I love the adult coloring books, but this one is more for someone with talent. You are given the basics in the picture, but a lot of the shading and lines are up to you. It's a nice book, but I've only tried 1 of the pics in it. It was not as enjoyable for me. Others may really like it. I want lines to guide my coloring

I gave it 4 stars, because the editor should've cleaned up some extraneous lines that don't make it easy to color. I do like the images on the right side of the page, but the editor should've cleaned up the images better for coloring. There are extraneous lines from sunlight, smoke etc that are more of a distraction than necessary for coloring. Overall the paper is excellent and it is easy to lay down color with color pencils. See attached two images.

A bit disappointing in that it is hard to color when there is just bits and pieces of a Picture. I have done three pictures and they are just okay. Don't love them. The pictures are not finished so it is difficult to make a tree look like a tree, a bush of flowers look that a bush of flowers. The book itself is very nice with the Thomas Kincade pictures, but the coloring is frustrating to do as the picture is just not there...

I wanted to give this 5 stars, however as a coloring book I found the basic format quite perplexing. The most frustrating aspect for me were the heavy outlines for clouds, which makes it ugly in that you cannot give it that understated watercolor soft ethereal look. There are only few that allow that. Also the areas where tall trees feather against the sky also have strong outlines so it's virtually impossible to mimmick the soft Kinkade effects. For all the work that's required in these small renditions to only end up with a bit of a strange mess, I decided to stop mid picture and just use the book for it's pleasant collection of Kinkade unnamed reproductions. My oil-based colored pencils laid down the color nicely on this paper, so did my soft core pencils. Some pictures could be used for framing in a small gallery wall type presentation. I hope others find it more enjoyable for coloring that I did.

This is a beautiful coloring book filled with 63 different designs by the late Thomas Kinkade who is also known as the Painter of Light. My husband and I own a couple of framed prints by Mr. Kinkade and they are beautiful pieces of art that one can look at and lose themselves in.

When I saw that Posh was coming out with a coloring book based on Mr. Kinkade's artwork, I pre-ordered it sight unseen. Sometimes that is a big risk but in this case, I am very pleased with the coloring book. The designs themselves are well done but do lack some of the smaller details. I plan to use a variety of markers and pencils and be able to add my own details with those.

The book is so lovely to look at, my husband took one glance, tried to make off with MY book, and finally had to order his own because this is one that I do not intend to share.

The designs are printed on the right hand side of with the photo of the actual painting on the left hand side (i.e., opposite each other in the book.) This will allow me to look at the photo of the real painting while I am coloring my own. It also, in effect, has the printing of the design on one side of the page. If you don't care about the photos, you can use markers which will bleed through the page (see my coloring medium information below.)

My silent video will show all of the pages of the book, both the designs and the photos. I will also upload a few pages in photos to show how the book is put together.

Here is what I found in this coloring book:

63 Thomas Kinkade designs with 63 color photos as well.
Designs printed on one side of the page with a photo on the back of the page.
Paper is white, very slightly textured, non-perforated and medium weight.
Designs stop before the binding area
Glue Bound
You can cut the pages out without loss of designs. I don't plan to do so as I really like having the photograph together with the design and you will lose that if you cut a page out.
Book lays fairly flat if you break the spine to flatten it out.
Alcohol-based markers bleed through freely.
Water-based markers leave spots of color or shadows of color on the back of the page except for the brush end of Tombows which did not leak through.
India ink pens leave shadows of color on the back of the page.
Gel pens do not bleed through.
Coloring pencils work well with one exception. All of the types of soft lead pencils I tested (you can see the full list in the comments section below), put down good color and layered well. Derwent Colorsoft was the only pencil that did not blend at all well for me. The color mostly stayed where I first put it down with only light blending at the edges. Hard lead pencils worked well and did not dent the page.

If you decide to use markers, you will probably have some amount of bleed-through onto the back of the page. I recommend using a heavyweight sheet of paper or card stock below your working page. That will keep ink from damaging the next design below.